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Introduction
I'm currently working with the Athlete Development & Pathways team at the AIS and utilising FTEM as a framework for reviewing the current developmental practices and provision of Australian National Sporting Organisations and examining in detail the developmental experiences, environmental and system catalysts and attributes of elite and mastery athletes. I am also a Partner Investigator on a current Australian Research Linkage project critiquing current TID & D practice.
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Objective Surveillance of health problems at the 2019 17/U & 19/U Australian Netball National Championships (ANNC) and compare this data with the 2018 17/U & 19/U ANNC. Determine the rate for risk of low energy availability and poor sleep quality in athletes competing at the 2019 ANNC. Design Prospective observational cohort study. Method One hun...
Background Success at the elite level in sport is often attributed to physical prowess, technical skill, and mental attitude. However, underpinning these factors are various lifestyle, support and social factors that may contribute to successful performance, but which may be absent from athlete development programs. Methods An online survey was us...
Background Netball Australia is Australia’s governing netball body, and introduced the ‘Knee injury prevention for Netballers and Enhance performance and Extend play’ (KNEE) program in 2015. Ankle sprains and ACL rupture are the most frequent and costly injuries in 17U & 19U athletes competing at the Australian Netball Championships (ANC). Thirty-e...
Background Pre-elite athletes are at increased risk of injury/illness due to rapid increases in training load, insufficient rest and recovery, growth and a lack of support services compared to elite athletes. Objective Surveillance of incidence, site, nature and mechanisms of injury/illness at the 2018 & 2019 17/U & 19/U Australian Netball Nationa...
Background Success at the elite level in sport is often attributed to physical prowess, technical skill, and mental attitude. However, underpinning these factors are various lifestyle and social influences that further contribute to successful performance, but which may be absent from athlete development programs. Methods An online survey was used...
Objectives To assess whether ankle tape applied by a Sport and Exercise Physiotherapist (SEP) or self-applied by the athlete results in a change in proprioception and whether it is maintained during a netball session. Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting Australian Institute of Sport. Participants 53 pre-elite netball athletes. Main outc...
Objective To identify challenges for implementing Netball Australia’s ‘Knee injury prevention for Netballers and Enhance performance and Extend play’ (KNEE) program for 17/U & 19/U State (i.e. regional/provincial representative) teams. Design Concept mapping, a mixed-methods approach incorporating qualitative and quantitative data collection and a...
Objectives To explore the different types of support (e.g., financial, informational) and support providers (e.g., fathers, siblings) in the development of male cricket players across different levels of skill expertise. Methods A quantitative questionnaire (developed as a part of a broader Australian Research Council Linkage project) assessing su...
The aim of this research was to explore at what age professional tennis players at different ranking levels (top 10, 11-20, 21–50, 51–100, 101–200, 201–300) started playing tennis and had achieved their career ranking milestones, and to explore the viability of using age and ranking to predict a player’s future success. 373 top 300 ranked professio...
Objectives To explore the different types of support and different support providers in female cricket players (n = 101), and to understand whether these support types or providers differ relative to level of skill expertise. Method A quantitative questionnaire (developed as a part of a broader Australian Research Council Linkage project) was dist...
Objective: To investigate the incidence, site, nature and cause of injuries sustained during and four weeks following the 2018 Australian National Netball Championships (ANNC's) using medical attention and self-report surveillance tools. Design: Prospective cohort study. Method: Injuries were recorded prospectively using medical attention and...
Purpose: The development of a physical literacy definition and standards framework suitable for implementation in Australia. Method:Modified Delphi methodology. Results: Consensus was established on four defining statements: Core-Physical literacy is lifelong holistic learning acquired and applied in movement and physical activity contexts; Composi...
Objectives: To describe and evaluate injury prevention interventions for pre-elite athletes who compete in an Olympic or professional sport. Design: Systematic review. Methods: This review was prospectively registered (PROSPERO CRD42017065083) and a systematic electronic search was conducted in May 2017. The following inclusion criteria were a...
The present study was designed to explore the skill of recruiting in the professional Australian Football League, with a particular interest in the approach to decision making and information processing. The research design utilised semi-structured interviews and a survey instrument. A total of 12 participants comprised of 11 active head recruiters...
Objectives The holy grail of any nation in the global sporting race is to better understand, replicate and sustain podium winning performances on the world stage. International sporting bodies advocate a holistic approach to the athletic profile and environmental and system-level factors required for world-class sporting performance, yet key lifest...
Learning from the career trajectories of the most successful elite players is central to informing effective strategies and long-term career planning to maximise player development and performance. This article examined the junior competition results and the performing age at major career milestones of top-level professional tennis players, utilisi...
This study aimed to assess the validity and reliability of jump assessments using the MyJump2 application. Eleven junior athletes (15 ± 1.4 years) performed five countermovement (CMJ) and drop jumps (DJ) measured simultaneously by a force platform and MyJump2. Additionally, intra- and inter-day reliability was assessed over two sessions, 7 days apa...
Introduction Movement competencies form the foundations in the development and training of young aspiring athletes. Yet formal assessment of such capabilities can be overlooked within early athlete programs, arising from the wide range of assessments varying in length, difficulty, and reliability in the current literature. The aim of this study was...
Currently in the literature, there is a dearth of empirical research that confirms whether international junior success is a reliable predictor for future international senior success. Despite the uncertainty of the junior–senior relationship, federations and coaches still tend to use junior success as a predictor for long-term senior success. A ra...
Effective sport talent identification and development (TID) programmes are integral to a nation’s success in international sport. Using a transdisciplinary approach that involved sport practitioners and researchers with diverse theoretical perspectives, we investigated TID factors in four Australian sports (Australian rules football, cricket, kayak...
The health, fitness and other advantages of youth sports participation are well recognised. However, there are considerable challenges for all stakeholders involved-especially youth athletes-in trying to maintain inclusive, sustainable and enjoyable participation and success for all levels of individual athletic achievement. In an effort to advance...
The ‘voice’ or perspective of the athlete is commonly unheard in research and practice relating to athlete development. This is seemingly ironic, given that ‘the athlete’ is purportedly the central focus and they have lived the experience, making them a truly qualified ‘knowledge expert’. Gary Hall Jr, a five-time Olympic gold medallist and advocat...
Abstract The Foundations, Talent, Elite and Mastery (FTEM) framework was designed through the lens of a world leading high-performance sport agency to assist sporting stakeholders operationalise and research their whole of sport development pathways (Gulbin, J. P., Croser, M. J., Morley, E. J., & Weissensteiner, J. R. (2013). An integrated framewor...
Abstract This investigation sought to contrast generalised models of athlete development with the specific pathway trajectories and transitions experienced by 256 elite athletes across 27 different sports. All participants completed the National Athlete Development Survey and within it, the Athlete Development Triangle featuring the differentiation...
Abstract This paper introduces a new sport and athlete development framework that has been generated by multidisciplinary sport practitioners. By combining current theoretical research perspectives with extensive empirical observations from one of the world's leading sport agencies, the proposed FTEM (Foundations, Talent, Elite, Mastery) framework...
Within the elite sporting experience, successful transitioning between key points in an athlete’s career appears critical (Pearson & Petitpas, 1990). Specifically in the sport of tennis, successful negotiation of the transition from junior to senior competition underpins a successful professional tennis career. Whilst a great deal of anecdotal evid...
Differences in interceptive skill between highly skilled and lesser skilled cricket batsmen were examined using a batting task that required participants to strike front-foot drive strokes from a machine-projected ball to a specified target. Task difficulty was manipulated by varying the width of the bat (normal, half, and third width) and target a...
This paper sought to determine the psychological characteristics and skills that are fundamental to batting success in the sport of cricket. Following on from the findings of an earlier qualitative investigation which suggested that a favourable mix of psychological attributes and skills are critical to high performance in batting (Weissensteiner e...
This paper chronicles the key developmental experiences and insights of 673 high performance Australian athletes (including 51 Olympians), across 34 sports. A customised survey was developed around Gagné's (2009) holistic model of talent development which enabled athletes to report in a contextually relevant way. Key thematic variables demonstrated...
Data from semi-structured interviews with 14 male expert cricket batsmen, coaches, and administrators were used to generate a conceptual model of expertise in this sport. In the model, a favorable socio-developmental environment (support, vast investment in creative and challenging play, sibling rivalry) provides the essential foundation for the de...
The link between the anticipation skills of cricket batsmen and their practice histories was examined. Skilled and lesser skilled batsmen of U15, U20, and adult age completed a temporal occlusion task, in which they were required to use prerelease kinematic information to predict the type and length of delivery being bowled, and a structured interv...
The biomechanical analysis of elite cricket bowlers reported in this article, provides information which may assist in the development of a model that may be used in teaching young fast bowlers. The information reported may also aid in the identification of injury-producing factors associated with the bowling action. This article outlines some prin...
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We are researching the link between lifestyle practices, mindset, and elite athletic performance. We recently conducted a study with 10 World, Olympic and Paralympic champion athletes and published the results in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Expanding on this research we are conducting a survey expanding on these themes but with a much larger sample of Australian athletes.
To assess the impact of a holistic approach to athlete development delivered via an online, user-driven platform. The AIS developed platform aims to prepare young athletes for both the physical and mental demands they are known to face along the sporting pathway. This PhD research will focus on the physical movement competencies of pre-elite athletes in the pathway across a range of sports. Specifically, we are exploring the impact of both athlete and coach-led engagement in the online training sessions, in order to further develop movement competencies.


An effective recipe for building seq2seq, non-autoregressive, task-oriented parsers to map utterances to semantic frames proceeds in three steps: encoding an utterance x, predicting a frame’s length |y|, and decoding a |y|-sized frame with utterance and ontology tokens. Though empirically strong, these models are typically bottlenecked by length prediction, as even small inaccuracies change the syntactic and semantic characteristics of resulting frames. In our work, we propose span pointer networks, non-autoregressive parsers which shift the decoding task from text generation to span prediction; that is, when imputing utterance spans into frame slots, our model produces endpoints (e.g., [i, j]) as opposed to text (e.g., “6pm”). This natural quantization of the output space reduces the variability of gold frames, therefore improving length prediction and, ultimately, exact match. Furthermore, length prediction is now responsible for frame syntax and the decoder is responsible for frame semantics, resulting in a coarse-to-fine model. We evaluate our approach on several task-oriented semantic parsing datasets. Notably, we bridge the quality gap between non-autogressive and autoregressive parsers, achieving 87 EM on TOPv2 (Chen et al. 2020). Furthermore, due to our more consistent gold frames, we show strong improvements in model generalization in both cross-domain and cross-lingual transfer in low-resource settings. Finally, due to our diminished output vocabulary, we observe 70% reduction in latency and 83% reduction in memory at beam size 5 compared to prior non-autoregressive parsers.
Being able to parse code-switched (CS) utterances, such as Spanish+English or Hindi+English, is essential to democratize task-oriented semantic parsing systems for certain locales. In this work, we focus on Spanglish (Spanish+English) and release a dataset, CSTOP, containing 5800 CS utterances alongside their semantic parses. We examine the CS generalizability of various Cross-lingual (XL) models and exhibit the advantage of pre-trained XL language models when data for only one language is present. As such, we focus on improving the pre-trained models for the case when only English corpus alongside either zero or a few CS training instances are available. We propose two data augmentation methods for the zero-shot and the few-shot settings: fine-tune using translate-and-align and augment using a generation model followed by match-and-filter. Combining the few-shot setting with the above improvements decreases the initial 30-point accuracy gap between the zero-shot and the full-data settings by two thirds.
Scaling semantic parsing models for task-oriented dialog systems to new languages is often expensive and time-consuming due to the lack of available datasets. Available datasets suffer from several shortcomings: a) they contain few languages b) they contain small amounts of labeled examples per language c) they are based on the simple intent and slot detection paradigm for non-compositional queries. In this paper, we present a new multilingual dataset, called MTOP, comprising of 100k annotated utterances in 6 languages across 11 domains. We use this dataset and other publicly available datasets to conduct a comprehensive benchmarking study on using various state-of-the-art multilingual pre-trained models for task-oriented semantic parsing. We achieve an average improvement of +6.3 points on Slot F1 for the two existing multilingual datasets, over best results reported in their experiments. Furthermore, we demonstrate strong zero-shot performance using pre-trained models combined with automatic translation and alignment, and a proposed distant supervision method to reduce the noise in slot label projection.


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Lung cancer is marked by worrying epidemiological data, such as high incidence, low survival, and late diagnosis. At the Hospital de Amor (HA), 540 cases were diagnosed in 2019, 70% with metastatic disease. Studies involving the collection of consistent and secure data are relevant to improving the clinical status of patients. For this reason, the Translational Group on Pulmonary Oncology…


A variety of research studies confirmed that customer centricity has a significant impact on corporate success (e.g., Harvard, McKinsey, University of St.Gallen, Walker). Surprisingly, only a few B2B companies have implemented a holistic and consistent customer-centric approach by the year 2022. In general, four levers are essential to successfully implement customer centricity:


FCSS Programs Shaping the Preventive Social Support Landscape of Alberta
A Family and Community Support Service (FCSS) is:
A legal partnershipbetween the Province of Alberta and municipalities or Métis Settlements An agreement under which locally-driven preventive initiatives can be developed, to enhance the wellbeing of individuals, families, and communities A funding arrangement through which the province provides a pre-determined grant for locally-driven initiatives, and municipalities match that grant by providing at least 20 per cent of the funding A philosophy under which local people can influence things that affect them, communities can be innovative and creative, citizen participation, self-help, and volunteerism are encouraged, and human growth and potential are enhanced A continually evolving program that encourages communities to strengthen themselves
The programs are a way for both the provincial and local governments to proactively and preventatively provide the people of Alberta with necessary social services, without creating a dependency on them –
resulting in resilient, capable communities.
FCSS funding is available to municipalities and Métis Settlements within Alberta that choose to develop and deliver social services that are preventive in nature.
Over 99 percent of Albertans reside in communities served by FCSS programs.
FCSS programs are a
unique 80/20 funding partnership between the Government of Alberta and participating municipalities or Métis Settlements. They enhance the social well-being of individuals and families through intervention strategies at the earliest opportunity, teaching coping skills, crisis resistance, and helping people and communities assume responsibility for decisions and actions which affect them.
This philosophy is based on a belief that
self-help contributes to a sense of integrity, self-worth, and independence. Programs help individuals adopt healthy lifestyles and habits, thereby improving the quality of their lives today and tomorrow. FCSS In Action FCSS Legislation
The following resources relate to the FCSS Legislation from the province of Alberta


Finance Working Group Co-chairs Jean-Christophe Mathonet Dimitrios Psarrakis Purpose
The Finance Working Group is set up to leverage member expertise and knowledge of DLT-based finance issues for development into policy recommendations. The overall community active within the WG seeks to become a leading voice across the blockchain and DLT space and help form solid and welcomed levels of influence on prospective legislation.
Objectives
The common goal of the objectives is to form valuable recommendations to policymakers and best-in-class content to members.
- Influence discussion on proposed regulations (MiCA, PRR, AMLR, etc.) via consultation responses, reports, and speaking opportunities. - Dedicate significant resources and facilitate knowledge sharing for policy proposals (MiCA, FATF and TAX UD). - Analyse and expand understanding and influence of European DeFi and Decentralised Protocol policy initiatives. Outputs
The Working Group engages in a number of activities aimed at achieving the aforementioned objectives. Among others, the Working Group will focus on response to MiCA and PRR regulation proposals, AMLR preparation and response, crypto-asset taxation with DGTAXUD, analysis of DeFi compliance, paper on compliant DAOs and response to FATF recommendations.
Subgroups
The Group has been divided into three Sub-Groups:
The first Sub-group focuses on: - Issuance of security tokens / crowdfunding - Token classification - Post trade, post market, custodian on digital asset - Stablecoins Co-chairs: Arnab Naskar The second Sub-group focuses on: - AML - License requirements for crypto exchanges, wallet providers and similar entities - Investment funds/asset management Co-chairs: Carolin Hartmann and Thomas Campione The third Sub-group focuses on
- Decentralised Finance
- Research the threats and opportunities of Decentralized Finance - Review the current regulatory hurdles for adoption - Analyse the industry players and prepare INATBA members for how to use the applications of Decentralized Finance Co-chairs: Jacek Czarnecki and Jan Klesla Why is it essential?
Finance is undoubtedly a sector with strong potential for blockchain and DLT application and use cases. This includes both solutions developed by large and small financial institutions as well as start-ups and new projects. Moreover, this area is also of high interest for public sector entities and authorities at both the national and international level (EU and non-EU).


Change Your Motivation for Weight Loss
Your motivations for losing weight have shifted if you are like most adults. The primary driver for losing weight has moved from attractiveness to health.
In a recent Mayo Clinic survey of more than 200,000 Americans, 83% stated that their health was their
top motivation for cutting back. According to the experts, the pandemic’s effect on our priorities is one reason for the shift.


This issue brief, developed by the SAMHSA SOAR TA Center, provides strategies for forming partnerships, examples, and a sample agreement to help hospitals and community programs create collaborations that are mutually beneficial.
This issue brief, developed by the SAMHSA SOAR TA Center, explores how SOAR collaborates with SSA and DDS, what roles each plays in a successful partnership, and the benefits to SSA and DDS of collaborating with state and local SOAR programs.
In the process of collecting medical evidence, the DDS examiner may decide that there is insufficient information to make a determination about disability. In this case, the DDS examiner can request an evaluation from an outside source called a Consultative Exam (CE).
The CE report should show not only the individual’s symptoms, laboratory findings (psychological test results), and diagnosis but also the effect of the mental disorder on the individual’s ability to function in personal, social, and occupational situations.
This article explains how you can promote SOAR with your Social Security Administration (SSA) Office of Hearings Operations (OHO) office to help ease their backlog and workload issues, while at the same time, improving access to expedited decisions for SOAR applicants.
The second webinar in our "Completing Quality SOAR Applications" series was held on June 27, 2018 and focused on how to optimize medical records collection and approach SSA’s Listings of Impairments for expediting your SOAR claim.


ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) announced on Sunday that work on special ramps and washrooms for differently abled people is underway in parks and marketplaces.
According to a CDA press statement, parking space would be allocated near ramps in accordance with international norms.
To accommodate differently-abled people, building construction bylaws have been revised, making the installation of ramps, parking, and washrooms necessary. The goal of these programs is to provide a pleasant environment in recreational places for differently-abled individuals so that they can participate in healthy activities as well. Additionally, the departments involved are working on lane marking and safety science around the city, according to the report.
It’s worth noting that many private and government buildings in Islamabad, notably the CDA and MCI’s historic double-story buildings, are inaccessible to differently-abled individuals because they lack lifts or ramps. However, the municipal agency has just begun to pay attention to the concerns of people with disabilities.
For more information and updates, visit
Tajarat Properties.


The amount of health-related data generated on an annual basis continues to rise. In fact, a single patient produces nearly 80 megabytes of data each year. These data points, from clinical indicators captured in the electronic health record (EHR) to claims encounters to activity readings tracked by wearables, contribute to the complex fabric of healthcare information.
Weaving a patient’s vital health information into a meaningful dataset can transform care delivery to be more personalized, preventative, and proactive. In addition, this data fabric can drive meaningful change through:
Personalized care delivery to treat the whole patient while improving their experience. Prevention of latent disease and avoidable cost and utilization to reduce the total cost of care. Proactive outreach and implementation of interventions at the right time to improve outcomes.
However, as the data informing this fabric continues to explode in volume, it also increases in variety and complexity. Thus, as many organizations begin to invest in obtaining access to various forms of health information, they realize that the journey to harnessing its power has just begun.
Barriers to Value: What Contributes to the Complexity of Clinical Data and how can this be Addressed?
Clinical data, sourced primarily from EHRs, health information exchanges (HIEs), and labs, contains rich information about an individual’s health journey. From diagnoses to lab results to vital signs, clinical data sources capture timely, precise indicators that are not always present in other sources, such as claims data. Because of these unique characteristics, many healthcare organizations aim to leverage clinical data to stratify risk, supplement quality measures, close coding and care gaps, and effectively manage population health.
However, the reality is that up to 50% of clinical data in its raw native form may not be usable, standardized, and interoperable, preventing organizations from successfully integrating and applying this information to capitalize on its potential. It is notoriously messy and inconsistent, and systemic data quality issues must be addressed before the data can be leveraged.
Variations in source terminologies, including non-standard and standard codes, and unique documentation practices, varying from practice to practice and EHR to EHR, are contributing factors. This is compounded by unpredictable inaccuracies contributing to clinical data complexity—information documented in the wrong place within the medical record, duplicate entries of the same prescription or diagnosis, the plethora of custom terminologies used, and fragmented data storage across healthcare systems.
As one example, there are at least 100 distinct ways clinicians may document hemoglobin A1C, the laboratory test for blood sugar. The scale of this problem increases significantly when looking at not just one lab test but all lab tests, then all medications, diagnoses, procedures, immunizations, and across other domains. The challenges of clinical data content complexity are incredible.
While regulatory agencies, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), maintain industry-standard terminologies for healthcare coding, the use and consistency at which they are applied in practice are limited. Healthcare must begin organizing around these standards to ensure a common language for data exchange and insights generation. Healthcare information is incomplete, inaccurate, and unpredictable without this alignment to terminology standards.
Additional data consumption challenges that contribute to clinical data cacophony include: Competing standards, both terminology and format (local versus national standard coding; FHIR versus C-CDA versus flat file format). Challenges impacting effective data collection at the point of care, resulting in data gaps. Data fragmentation across siloed systems and various EHRs, (consider that the average Medicare patient sees 11 providers across five care sites, and no one is privy to the whole story). Healthcare Needs Upcycled Data: How can the Totality of Clinical Data Potential be Unlocked?
Clinical data has the potential to transform business processes, accelerate time to insights, and improve health outcomes with critical information and timeliness that other datasets lack. However, the complexities introduced by various coding and format standards prevent stakeholders from successfully tapping into this value. To solve these challenges, organizations may look to hire, train, and deploy in-house resources and teams of data analysts. However, manual terminology mapping and similar approaches yield modest data usability returns and are costly, time-consuming, and inefficient, preventing organizations from being prepared to scale, grow, and innovate effectively.
Upcycling is a powerful process to transform raw clinical data from disparate sources into a standards-based, interoperable asset, accelerating the deployment of clinical data and allowing organizations to redeploy resources strategically and operate efficiently. Upcycling data means semantically normalizing source codes to industry standard terminologies (e.g., LOINC, CPT, ICD10), enriching with metadata such as drug classes and CCS codes, and aggregating across multiple sources per patient to generate a longitudinal, deduplicated record.
The resulting data asset is positioned to digitally transform population health, public health, value-based care, and analytics initiatives across the industry. To further encourage the exchange of quality, standard clinical data, Upcycling and real-time conversion of legacy formats, including CCD, HL7v2, and flat files, to FHIR resources ensures the use of high-quality data in FHIR for Patient Access, Payer to Payer, and analytics use cases.
The Benefits of Upcycled Data: Why and Why Now?
Patients, providers, and plans are eager for the shift to value-based care (VBC) and a more optimal patient experience. Understanding the medical, social, and behavioral needs of each person within a population is critical to improving the quality of care and health outcomes. Organizations must leverage data as a strategic business asset with expertly generated insights to achieve a more personalized, preventative, and proactive care delivery model. Upcycled clinical data helps accelerate the shift to VBC and aims to increase healthcare system efficiency and improve clinical outcomes and patient experience while reducing the total cost of care.
Upcycled data as an asset drives impact across the following:
Better care quality. Healthcare providers and plans benefit from complete information to inform decision-making, enabling targeted care delivery to address care gaps, coding gaps, disease management, and social and behavioral needs. More accurate analytics.Accurate clinical data directly contributes to more precise analytics, predictive modeling, and AI/ML model development. Whether used as input into a tool for predicting mortality risks or population health analytics, upcycled clinical data delivers an average of 30-50% more usable data across clinical domains to increase the accuracy of generated insights. Lower costs.Through enterprise efficiencies as well as workflow-level efficiencies, organizations benefit from automation, speed, and scale to reduce admin burden and associated costs. Additionally, with clinical data assets applied across critical use cases, including risk adjustment and quality measurement, duplication and waste are reduced.
Clinical data is a powerful, strategic asset when it is actionable, consistent, and useful.
When successfully upcycled, it will fuel innovations in value-based care and whole-person care programs, provide seamless data exchange between payers, providers, and individuals. Data is a force to drive meaningful change in healthcare, and better data means better decision-making across the care continuum.
Author:
Mary Lantin is President and Chief Operating Officer, Diameter Health and General Manager, Clinical Solutions, Availity .
Mary has an established track record of successfully operationalizing organizations’ strategic visions. At Diameter Health, a national leader in clinical data quality and interoperability, she led the business and was responsible for driving the corporate strategy, designing product portfolio capabilities, and delivering products and services to customers across multiple markets. She oversaw the commercial, technology, product, finance, and operations teams. Diameter was acquired by Availity earlier this year. Prior to joining Diameter Health, Mary served as President and General Manager at Optum Analytics for Payer and Provider Solutions. Mary also held senior leadership roles at various health information technology companies, where she developed and executed strategies for the rapid deployment of enterprise-wide analytics solutions.
Mary earned a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, and a master’s in public health from Harvard University.
Diameter Health is now part of Availity


Your contributions to your employer-sponsored retirement savings plan may still enable you to
open or contribute to either a Roth or traditional individual retirement account (IRA).
However, your (or your spouse’s) participation in an employer-sponsored plan may affect your ability to
deduct traditional IRA contributions and your eligibility for a Roth IRA.
Eligibility and deductions are phased-out based on your income and your filing status. (Roth IRA contributions are never tax deductible).
More tax-advantaged account contributions will enable you to accumulate more wealth!
Check with you tax advisor to verify your eligibility.
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We believe that a strong, inclusive economy is a better economy for everyone. A vibrant, skilled workforce ensures that businesses can thrive and that individuals, along with their families and wider communities, can achieve financial independence and security. Our Vision In our research, we found that one of the largest issues for African economies is, Africa’s ‘Brain Drain’. African countries have cultivated a general consensus amongst the people, that encourages the great minds and industry leaders in Africa, to leave the continent for careers in other countries and promises of greener pastures. As an independent financial educational institution, we aim to reduce the impact of the ‘Brain Drain’ at present, and prevent its continuing pattern, by adequately educating young minds to pursue financial careers and opportunities in their homeland. Our courses aim to provide Ghanaian citizens and expatriates to with holistic and specific material; covering personal finance, enabling them to apply sufficient financial acumen when attempting to use investment vehicles in Ghana financial markets. With this, we will nurture a mindset for individuals inside & outside of Ghana, determined and excited to invest their capital into the Ghanaian economy, as opposed to the notion that they must invest abroad for more opportunities and return on investments. Our subscription service will range from $110 per month with a one-off subscription fee of $2500.


Patients who are admitted to the hospital with a first episode of electrical storm (ES) have high morbidity and mortality rates despite existing treatment options, and those with a recurrent ES experience very poor outcomes. These findings were published in
The American Journal of Cardiology.
A retrospective review of electronic health records was conducted to identify cases of ES at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health (Richmond, Virginia) between January 1, 2018, and May 31, 2021. Researchers sought to evaluate the burden of arrhythmia recurrence and in-hospital outcomes in patients admitted to VCU Health, a large urban hospital, for ES. Individuals who had been admitted with a ventricular arrhythmia were analyzed.
Recurrence of ventricular arrhythmias included sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT), which lasted for 30 seconds or longer; ventricular fibrillation (VF) or use of appropriate treatments for VT or VF, including antitachycardia pacing or shocks; and recurrence of ES, which occurred 24 hours or longer from the initial episode. In-hospital outcomes included need for sympathectomy, ventricular arrhythmia catheter ablation, invasive mechanical ventilation, left ventricular mechanical support, heart transplantation, and death.
A total of 61 patients with ES, defined as 3 or more episodes of VT or VF within 24 hours, were identified. In-hospital outcomes were compared among these patients with no recurrence of VT or VF after the first 24 hours (56%); those who experienced a recurrence of 1 or 2 episodes of VT or VF within a 24-hour period (24%); and patients with 3 or more recurrent VT or VF events, which is consistent with recurrent ES after the first 24 hours (20%).
Results of the study showed that patients with recurrent ES reported significantly higher in-hospital morality compared with those with recurrent VT or VF who did not meet the criteria for ES or those with no recurrences of VT or VF (25% vs 0% vs 0%, respectively;
P =.002). Additionally, patients with recurrent ES also experienced higher rates of the combined endpoints of catheter ablation or death (100% vs 47% vs 35%, respectively; P <.001); invasive mechanical ventilation and death (83% vs 13% vs 6%, respectively; P <.001); ventricular mechanical support and death (58% vs 6% vs 3%, respectively; P <.001); and heart transplantation and death (25% vs 13% vs 0%, respectively; P =.018).
A major limitation of the analysis is the fact that it was a single-center study with a small sample size that might not have sufficient power to detect potential significant differences between the comparison arms. Additionally, the results that are generated from a single-center analysis may not be fully generalizable to different settings and practices.
“In conclusion, we found that patients admitted with a first episode electrical storm have high morbidity and mortality despite existing treatment options, and in these, patients with a recurrent electrical storm have extremely poor outcomes,” the study authors noted. “Larger, prospective studies are needed to better characterize to further strengthen our findings.”
Disclosure: Some of the study authors have declared affiliations with biotech, pharmaceutical, and/or device companies. Please see the original reference for a full list of authors’ disclosures. Reference
Damonte JI, Del Buono MG, Thomas GK, et al. Arrhythmic recurrence and outcomes in patients hospitalized with first episode of electrical storm.
Am J Cardiol. Published online March 30, 2022. doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2022.02.032


As per this study the Global Urgent Care Market was valued USD XX MN (by revenue) in 2021 and is anticipated to reach USD XX MN by 2028 with a CAGR of XX%.
Urgent care is a medical facility which is a type of walk-in clinic aimed to focus on ambulatory care. Urgent care centers primarily treat accidents, sudden illnesses requiring immediate attention. The staff of urgent care centers includes physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, medical assistants, radiological technologists, and front desk receptionists. This staff can treat fractures, provide IV fluids, and have usually X-ray and lab processing on-site.
Market Dynamics
The increasing incidences of cardiovascular diseases and sports-related injuries requiring immediate care are boosting the urgent care market growth. Moreover, cost-effective treatment in urgent care centers is further pushing the market growth. However, the lack of skilled professionals is anticipated to restrains the urgent care market growth. Whereas, rising awareness about urgent care centers is projected to fuel the market growth over the forecast period.
This detailed market study is centered on the data obtained from multiple sources and is analyzed using numerous tools including porter’s five forces analysis, market attractiveness analysis and value chain analysis. These tools are employed to gain insights of the potential value of the market facilitating the business strategists with the latest growth opportunities. Additionally, these tools also provide a detailed analysis of each application/product segment in the global market of urgent care.
Market Segmentation
The broad urgent care market has been sub-grouped into product type, and end-use application. The report studies these subsets with respect to the geographical segmentation. The strategists can gain a detailed insight and devise appropriate strategies to target specific market. This detail will lead to a focused approach leading to identification of better opportunities.
By Product Type
Point of Care Tests
Clinical Chemistry And Immunoassays
Vaccines
Imaging Equipment
By End-Use Application
Broken Bones
Cough
Lacerations
Concussions
Ear or Sinus Pain
Regional Analysis
Furthermore, the report comprises of the geographical segmentation which mainly focuses on current and forecast demand for urgent care in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East & Africa. The report further focuses on demand for individual application segments in all the regions.
Global Urgent Care Market Share by Region (Representative Graph)
The report also covers detailed competitive landscape including company profiles of key players operating in the global market. The key players in the urgent care market include American Family Care, Aurora Urgent Care, Bellin Health, CareNow, CareSpot, Concentra, Dignity Health care, Doctors Care, FastMed, Intermountain InstaCare, MD Now, MedExpress Urgent Care, NextCare, Patient First, Physicians Immediate Care, and others. An in-depth view of the competitive outlook includes future capacities, key mergers & acquisitions, financial overview, partnerships, collaborations, new product launches, new product developments and other developments with information in terms of H.Q.
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Sustainability
The EPA Compliance Assistance & Pollution Prevention program provides hospital with an Environmental Assessment Template, an offline questionnaire to evaluate performance with regard to the management of water, air, wastes, etc. within healthcare organizations.
To be used by Southern CSOs and their partners, this tool is framed on the PROSE methodology (Participatory, Results-Oriented Self-Evaluation). It will help you measure your organizational capacities and consensus level in seven capacity areas: human and financial resources management, equitable participation, sustainability of program benefits, partnerships, organizational learning and strategic management/governance. The 63 pages user guide is available in pdf format from which you can print your necessary worksheets.
This workbook is particularly addressed to environmental education organizations and professionals. It aims to help you improve your effectiveness and fill your mission and objectives. Covering all areas that concern internal development (culture, team building, governance, strategic planning, management, stakeholders, and program evaluation), this tool provides you with a comprehensive review of your organization so that you can increase its leadership and sustainability.
This article provides a self-evaluation tool to assess the performance or utility of your "existing and forming" collaborative groups. You can find two main sections on this page: a short literature review on collaboration and the collaboration checklist (with its terms being defined and guidelines for interpreting your results). You might want to print the checklist section and distribute it to other collaborators.


The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture’s (IICA) Representative in the Eastern Caribbean States, Mr. Gregg Rawlins, visited St. Vincent and the Grenadines from May 23rd – 27th, 2022. The visit was aimed at strengthening existing relationships with stakeholders in the agricultural sector and exploring additional opportunities for technical cooperation that would redound to the benefit of the sector and rural communities. Mr. Rawlins, in an interview with the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that IICA recognizes the importance of continuing to support member states in achieving food security through the development of a sustainable, competitive and resilient agricultural sector which is even more important now, in light of the recent rapid price increase of energy products, food products and agricultural inputs.
He indicated that IICA believes in adopting a soil and water centric approach to agricultural interventions that includes the use of appropriate technologies to combat the effects of climate change particularly; the use of irrigation, mulching, increased use of composting and bio-chemicals designed to improve soil health and hence improve the growth and development of plants.
The Representative noted that IICA is developing a new agricultural strategy that will provide a framework for improved coordination within the OECS sub-region to address the issue of strengthening food systems, to achieve greater food security and to ensure that the agricultural sector plays a multifunctional role in the development of economies in the sub-region. He noted that the discussions he had during his visit were fruitful in shedding light on issues that the Institute needed to address especially in the areas of soil health, water management on farms and other issues aimed at building resilience of farmers to climate change impacts. He pointed to two ongoing projects that IICA is undertaking in multiple countries which are aimed at encouraging adaption and mitigation measures for climate change and building resilience among farming populations. The first of these is titled Strengthening the foundation for a climate responsive agricultural sector in the Caribbean (also referred to as the CARICOM AG Ready Project) which is aimed at strengthening the foundation on which the region´s agriculture sector prioritizes investments for resilience and enhance conditions for improved reporting on greenhouse gas emissions in specified agricultural value chains. This project is being implemented in nine CARICOM countries including St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The second is titled, Strengthening Coastal and Marine Climate Resilience through Community Engagement and Ecosystem Based Adaptation Solutions in Upland Rural Watersheds.
This project aims to facilitate development, and effective adoption and use of cost-effective, nature-based integrated soil management approaches within project communities to address climate risks and bring socio-economic livelihood benefits, thereby reducing pressure on marine and coastal systems.
It is being implemented in three countries including Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica.
These projects are complemented by other initiatives aimed at promoting the development of waste management on farms, supporting ICT development for Extension Services and supporting the development of farmers’ cooperatives through collaborative initiatives for vegetable production. Mr. Rawlings expressed gratitude to the senior officials within the Ministry of Agriculture for their assistance and support in the execution of IICA’s technical cooperation work.
He also commended the Ministry for leading the agricultural sector by providing the policy and regulatory framework and support services to farmers that have contributed to the establishment of a robust sector.
IICA is a hemispheric organization whose mission is “to encourage, promote and support its Member States in their efforts to achieve agricultural development and rural well-being,” which the Institute states it will achieve “through international technical cooperation of excellence.


Cyxtera Technologies (NASDAQ: CYXT), a retail colocation provider, today announced its Q4 and full-year 2021 earnings and provided updates on its outlook for 2022, EBITDA margin impact from energy inflation, data center portfolio, bookings, churn, occupancy, pricing, and capital expenditures –
both expansion and maintenance. Financial Performance in Q4 2021 – Cyxtera Technologies
In Q4 2021, Cyxtera Technologies reported total revenue of $178.4m, a 0.7% increase quarter-over-quarter, and transaction adjusted EBITDA of $48.0m, a 17% decrease quarter-over-quarter. Therefore, the company’s EBITDA margin was 26.9% in Q4 2021, a 5.9% decline quarter-over-quarter.
Degradation in Cyxtera’s EBITDA margin was driven in-part by higher utility costs in Q4 2021. Furthermore, Carlos Sagasta, Cyxtera’s CFO states that “energy remains the single source of focus of inflationary pressure for us in 2022”.
Per Sagasta, Cyxtera has the “contractual flexibility to pass through increases in power costs” onto its customers, which cover more than 85% of its contracts. However, in reality, Cyxtera is able or willing to pass through only a
portion of these power / energy costs, hence its EBITDA margin degradation. Moreover, Cyxtera notes that there is a timing impact between the change in energy costs and its ability to pass those costs onto its customers. Recurring Revenue
Cyxtera’s recurring revenue for Q4 2021 was $170.3m (95% of total), an increase of 0.6% quarter-over-quarter. Recall that the company’s
non-recurring revenues comprise installation services related to a customer’s initial data center deployment, as well as professional services. Interconnection Revenue
Of Cyxtera’s total revenue, interconnection revenue represented 11%, equivalent to ~$19.6m in Q4 2021. At the same time, quarterly interconnection revenues grew 5% year-over-year.
Full-Year 2021 and Outlook for 2022 – Cyxtera Technologies Full-Year 2021
For full-year 2021, Cyxtera Technologies reported total revenue of $703.7m, a 1.9% increase year-over-year, and transaction adjusted EBITDA of $224.4m, a 4.1% increase year-over-year. Therefore, Cyxtera Technologies’ EBITDA margin was 31.9% in full-year 2021, a 67 bps improvement year-over-year.
Outlook for 2022
For full-year 2022, Cyxtera Technologies provides an outlook for revenue of $730m to $760m. Additionally, the company forecasts transaction adjusted EBITDA of $235m to $253m, implying a 32.8% EBITDA margin. Finally, the mid-point of Cyxtera Technologies’ 2022 outlook infers a year-over-year increase of 5.9% and 8.7% in revenue and transaction adjusted EBITDA, respectively.
Capital Expenditures – Outlook
In 2022, Cyxtera provides guidance for a significant increase in both its
expansion and maintenance capital expenditures, relative to 2021. Together, these expansion and maintenance capital expenditures are projected to comprise 19% of Cyxtera’s revenue for 2022, at the mid-point of its guidance, as compared to only 12.6% in 2021. Below is a breakdown of both of these capital expenditure projections for 2022: Expansion:$102m to $127m, implying a 70% increase year-over-year, at the mid-point Maintenance:$26m to $28m, inferring a 27% increase year-over-year, at the mid-point
Regarding
expansion capital expenditures, Cyxtera is growing its data center portfolio in markets like Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, California), London, and Chicago. Particularly, in the Santa Clara, California market, Cyxtera pre-leased a new 9-megawatt, 121k sqft facility from wholesale data center developer Prime Data Centers, which will be ready for customers in late 2022. Ultimately, these in-market expansions are a positive sign for Cyxtera, whereby the company is building-out capacity based on customer demand – particularly in notoriously tight supply markets such as Santa Clara.
In contrast, Cyxtera’s significant increase in its
maintenance capital expenditures highlights a different, more negative issue – one of data center aging and potential obsolescence. As highlighted through recent data center portfolio disposals (Prudential, Digital Core REIT), in which Cyxtera was a major tenant, the company operates out of a number of older facilities, which were built 20+ years ago. Therefore, as power and cooling infrastructure within these old data centers reaches its useful life, Cyxtera must increase its repair and maintenance capital expenditures – or potentially refresh the facilities with entirely new equipment – in order to remain competitive operationally. Operational Performance in Q4 2021 – Cyxtera Technologies Portfolio
Cyxtera operates 61 data centers, comprising 245 megawatts of power capacity. Overall, these data centers involve 1.8 million sqft, in 28 markets throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, supporting 2.3k+ customers.
Bookings
Cyxtera’s annualized core bookings were $21.5m in Q4 2021, representing an increase of 3.7% quarter-over-quarter. During the quarter, the company added 40 new customers to the business, accounting for more than 25% of its bookings in Q4 2021.
Additionally, as a reference point, in Q4 2021, Cyxtera was below its average annualized core bookings rate for the prior four quarters of $25.0m.
Churn
Cyxtera reports “core churn” of only 0.6% of average core MRR, however, this figure excludes churn related to Lumen Technologies. On a sequential basis, Cyxtera’s core churn improved by 10 bps from Q3 2021.
In Q2 2022, Cyxtera’s broader churn dynamics will become clearer, as 7.6% of Lumen’s footprint with Cyxtera will be up for renewal in May 2022. Therefore, Cyxtera may face a possible non-renewal, downsizing, or lower renewal pricing for a portion of Lumen’s occupancy. Recall that Lumen is Cyxtera’s largest customer.
Occupancy
As of Q4 2021, Cyxtera Technologies’
total occupancy, based on sold sqft, was 70.9%, which improved 2.4% quarter-over-quarter. While the company’s stabilized occupancy, which excludes the Amsterdam (Netherlands) market, was 71.4%, improving 2.5% quarter-over-quarter.
During the quarter, notable
net lease-up occurred in New Jersey (21.5k sqft), Silicon Valley (6.1k sqft), Toronto (4.6k sqft), Seattle (3.0k sqft), and Denver (2.4k sqft). In contrast, Cyxtera realized incremental net vacancy in Chicago (1.8k sqft) and Northern Virginia (1.7k sqft) – both markets showing similar trends to Q3 2021. Pricing
During the quarter, Cyxtera produced monthly recurring revenue (MRR) per cabinet of $1,385, which represents a 3.8% decrease quarter-over-quarter.
Capital Expenditures
The company spent $33.4m (cash basis) or $40.0m (accrual basis) on capital expenditures in Q4 2021. Of the accrual basis capital expenditures, $32.1m went to expansion projects, $7.3m was for maintenance, and $0.6m was corporate.


Designing Critique Guidance for Revision of Science Ideas to Promote Self-Directed Learning Abstract
Scientific thinking involves continual critique and revision of ideas as an individual encounters new evidence and novel concepts. However, students often struggle to integrate new ideas with their prior knowledge, and as a result they continue to hold conflicting ideas about scientific phenomena. This is often reflected in students’ revisions of scientific explanations, where they add unrelated information onto the end of their initial ideas. Graphing is another area where students struggle, and can benefit from continual revision. Engaging students in critique, of their own ideas and the ideas of others, has the potential to help students recognize inconsistencies in their scientific understanding. This dissertation research investigates iteratively designed critique guidance to clarify its impact on students’ abilities to reevaluate their prior knowledge and successfully revise their science ideas and graphical representations. Emergent findings from these studies revealed the self-directed nature of revision and critique, and led to further investigation of the relationship between these practices and other aspects of self-directed learning, including generation and investigation of scientific questions.
Using the Knowledge Integration (KI) framework, I redesigned two web-based middle school curricular units, Genetics & Simple Inheritance, and Graphing Stories, in collaboration with teachers and a team of software designers. I conducted an iterative series of studies to clarify the impact of critique in helping students re-examine their prior knowledge, and help them distinguish ideas and improve their revisions of science explanations and graphs. The first set of studies investigated various types of critique guidance designed to help students improve their ability to revise explanations about mechanisms in genetics. The next set of studies includes similar critique guidance and applied it to revisions of student-generated position-time graphs, and looked at students’ rationales for how they chose to revise their graphs. The last set of studies, motivated by the apparent self-directed nature of these practices, further investigated the relationship between revision, critique, and students’ ability to generate and investigate their own questions.
These studies together help clarify the value of critique in promoting revision of science ideas and graphs. The findings show that success learning from critique depends heavily on prior knowledge of the content material. In the context of genetics and graphing, students attended most to aspects of the activity they already understood well rather than using critique to explore new concepts, and this was supported by students’ revision rationales. However, engaging students in critique often encouraged them to revise their ideas more frequently, which is beneficial for improving their scientific understanding. This work reaffirms the value of revision, both for learning and asking further questions. Findings also support the notion that students can successfully critique, revise, and investigate their own questions with sufficient scaffolding. This work has implications for design of online curricula to promote revision, critique, and self-directed learning.


On November 3
rd 2020, Léa, Research Advisor at GISF collaborated with WaterAid as part of their Safer WaterAid Week. She presented the findings and recommendations from GISF research paper, Partnerships and Security Risk Management: from the local partner’s perspective.
Léa was also joined by John Ede, co-chair of the Charter for Change (C4C) Advocacy Working Group and President of Ohaha family foundation in Nigeria, who reflected on his own experiences of capacity strengthening on security at a local level.
Too often it is seen that security is rarely discussed or prioritised within partnership agreements between INGOs and local NGOs, meaning that security risks are simply transferred onto local partners and opportunities to share or build capacity with them are lost. This event was an opportunity to trigger conversations on the topic at WaterAid and fuel their ongoing work on improving partnerships with local actors.


In mid-April, the FDA and the CDC issued a joint statement on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, noting that six women experienced rare and severe blood clots after receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
As of April 12, 2021, more than 6.8 million doses of this specific vaccine have been administered, making the occurrence of these blood clots rare. Out of an abundance of caution, the CDC and the FDA reviewed these cases, recommending a pause in the use of this vaccine.
The type of blood clot that developed across these women is cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), which was seen in combination with low levels of blood platelets (thrombocytopenia). All six cases occurred in women between the ages of 18 and 49, six to 13 days after vaccination.
Treatment for this specific blood clot is different from typical treatment for blood clots. In most scenarios, an anticoagulant drug called heparin is used to treat blood clots. However, for CVST, heparin may be dangerous, and alternative treatments may be required.
Following a thorough safety review, including two meetings of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the FDA and CDC determined that the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine should be resumed. The FDA and CDC are confident that the vaccine is safe and effective in preventing COVID-19.
Current data shows that the vaccine’s known and potential benefits outweigh risks and that the chance of these blood clots occurring is very low.
Individuals who had already received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine who experience severe headache, abdominal pain, leg pain, or shortness of breath within three weeks of getting this vaccine should contact their health care provider.


IT growth: the Indian IT sector is driven by a rising appetite for digital transformation which has its more focus on automation and industrialization by Artificial Intelligence stated by Rekha Menon, Chairperson.
Stated this information in an email interview with Economic Times reporter Raghu Krishnan and Anandi Chandrasekhar. The statement was given on a behalf of ongoing debate between the government and the social media platforms.
Menon mentioned that while compliance is vital, it needs to understand the challenges faced in the current rules or legislation and decriminalize the criminal offenses. She stated that the industry and government need to collaborate to build the right processes and a robust framework for higher accountability. The interview is as follow,
The Indian technology industry has recovered well after the pandemic. What kind of growth does she see in the industry in the upcoming 5 years? How would she be going to characterize this growth? In the reply, she stated that the technology industry has shown a remarkable downfall during the pandemic in India.
In the early investment in creating the world-class infrastructure, strong industry collaborations and these people’s resilience and innovation have kept on a strong and steady footing with the clients.
The pandemic in the result adopted digitalization across industries and somehow the industries are trying to develop AI for their growth. The listed companies have recorded an increase in technology by 5.3 percent in H2 2020 and H1 2020.
What do Indian companies and the government need to sustain this growth? She is a reply stated that there are so many that the country needs to realize for growth. The important aspects are driving the higher degree of collaboration with stakeholders which ensures the availability of digital-ready talent which also enables the smooth transition of all missions.
The country needs to reimagine the future of work for our industries to drive the new business model and the development of talent and skills is a must for national growth.
IT growth, How Nasscom is aiding the dispute between social media and the Indian government currently? She in reply stated that the new challenges faced with the new regulations. While the government made it mandatory for social media apps to be accountable for the country.
Rekha Menon, being a chairperson how do you plan for Nasscom? She in reply said that their industry is on a path that accelerates growth with the technology which emerges as a lifeline of societies and economies across the whole world. She is excited to work more in the digital transformation industry and continue her journey.


On the surface, the customer journey is a simple concept – you develop a product, and your customer buys it. With advancements in technology redefining the way consumers connect with brands, the customer journey is becoming increasingly complex. That’s why mapping a buyer’s journey is essential to ensuring a great experience – for every individual customer.
As a marketer, you’ll already know that a customer-journey map is an effective tool for understanding customer interactions with your brand across all touchpoints. You’ll also know that every time customers interact with your organisation, they create an abundance of data.
When that data is analysed effectively, it can provide valuable insights. Ultimately, your organisation can use that information to optimise and personalise each customer’s experience – and keep them coming back.
Staying focused on the customer
There are many advantages of customer-journey mapping, but the single greatest benefit is simply understanding your customers better. The deeper you understand their expectations, the more you can tailor the customer experience to individual customer needs.
Here are five key customer journey benefits: Zoom out to zoom in.Benchmark the buyer journey compared to what you’d expect it to be to understand your customer’s perspective better. This data can optimise your sales and marketing strategies by alleviating customer pain points. Bring teams together.Provide all your teams with the same customer journey data and intelligence to align different departments or perspectives toward achieving a universal goal. Identify moments of opportunity.Drawing a journey map lets you identify experience or service gaps in your buying process you may not notice otherwise. This is important because, in the future, it will be why customers prefer your product over all the others. Understand and predict customer behaviour.Predict your buyer personas’ behaviour at different touchpoints as they move through the sales funnel. Then, you can find ways to assist potential customers in finding the right products or taking the following steps. Create a logical order for your customer journey.Use insights to simplify the customer journey and make it easier for buyers to engage with your brand. Over time, a consistently positive customer experience will benefit your bottom line. Top challenges of customer journey mapping
While there’s a lot to gain from mapping customer journeys, it has some limitations too.
Complex web of multiple channels.Consumers interact with brands on various channels which can make it difficult to identify and track the influence of different touchpoints on the customer. Mapping different customer personas.Every buyer persona targets an audience set with unique pain points, buying patterns, behaviours and paths to purchase, so mapping every persona into a single customer journey is a complex task. Monitoring behaviour across touchpoints.Capturing cross-channel activities through existing technologies, departments and processes and then responding to the customers with relevant and personalised content can be a convoluted exercise. Getting started: leverage the customer data you already have
Most businesses have lots of data, and some of it can be hard to access. So, leveraging data from across multiple touchpoints to gain insights can be challenging – that is, without the right tools.
Using a Customer Data Platform (CDP) will help you build a Single Customer View by pulling all the data you need from multiple sources into one place. That way, you can create audience segments and share them with your other marketing platforms to gain customer journey insights easily and quickly.
Use Case: One of our customers did not have a single customer view as their data was siloed and challenging for marketers to access. With a Single Customer View, they were able to create and share audience segments with their existing MarTech stack for highly personalised customer journeys. This allowed them to improve the customer experience by providing the right message at the right time and in the right channel, ultimately improving retention and customer perception.
A CDP will help two-fold by:
Breaking down departmental silos and processesto create a more collaborative model which will support analysis of the customer journey across channels. Integrating your existing MarTech stackto create data unification across all touchpoints – digital, web, social and email platforms – allows you can deliver powerful, highly personalised multi-channel campaigns without changing platforms. Customer-journey mapping simplified
These days, consumers want a highly personalised experience, and customer-journey mapping plays a crucial role in this process. You can have the best marketing team in the world, but without a unified Single Customer View, it can be hard to resolve issues and improve the customer experience.
The n3 Hub CDP delivers marketing and CX utopia by bringing customer data, points-of-sale, offers, sentiment and product information together to easily access and share a Single Customer View. It generates segments and provides relevant, consistent and personalised content for each customer that can be shared over various channels using your existing marketing platforms.
Get in touch today to see how n3 Hub can deliver results to your marketing team.


A Plain Dealer analysis of plans offered through healthcare.gov, the exchange website, shows that deductibles, co-pays, and co-insurance expenses are putting up significant barriers to accessing medical care, particularly for middle-income earners. The average deductible for a silver-level plan – among the most affordable options for someone with medical needs – is $3,561 in Cuyahoga County for a 40-year-old male earning $30,000, according to the analysis. The maximum annual out-of-pocket expense for that individual averages $6,277.


The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development organized a Vice Chancellors’ Dialogue with public sector universities through its five-year, US $19 million, Higher Education System Strengthening Activity.
Top tier leadership shared their experiences of working with HESSA; reflections about best practices in academia, research, and governance learned during their U.S. study tour; and ideas for making the program more demand driven.
HESSA is being implemented in collaboration with 16 Pakistani public sector universities and other stakeholders, with a focus on strengthening universities’ capacity to deliver market-driven education and research to enhance graduate employability.
The program aims to achieve this goal through three components: advancing leadership, governance, and management at Pakistani universities; improving the relevance, quality, and accessibility of higher education; and enhancing support services across the students’ life cycle.
USAID’s Director of Education Office, Anne Flaker said, “We are proud that our commitment to the education sector has helped lay the foundations for continued economic growth and development.”


It is essential to ensure that organizations are inclusive and diverse. However, most companies are struggling to achieve their DEI objectives. Pulsely Co-founder and CEO Pedro do Carmo Costa talked about the benefits of diversity, equity and inclusion for businesses and sharing his knowledge about the most relevant metrics that can help DEI leaders assess and monitor DEI progress in their organizations.
Watch the full interview in the link below:


Working Paper
Cost of electric commercial vans and pickup trucks in the United States through 2040
This paper presents a total cost of ownership assessment of battery-electric Class 2b and 3 commercial vehicles between 2020 and 2040 benchmarked against the corresponding costs of gasoline and diesel powertrains. While electrification has been slow to emerge in this area, the relatively low daily driving range compared to other commercial vehicle classes makes this sector prime for a technology shift to zero-emission technology in the coming years.
The analysis finds that over a five-year ownership period, the total cost of owning a battery electric van with an electric drive range of between 100 and 400 miles ranges from $69,000 to $92,000, compared to $71,000 for a gasoline van and $82,000 for a diesel van. For a battery electric pickup truck, the total costs of ownership over the same period costs $78,000–$107,000 compared to $78,000 for a gasoline pickup truck and $88,000 for a diesel pickup truck.
Projected reductions in battery prices through 2040 and increased regulation of the conventional market narrow the total cost of ownership gap significantly, and parity is achieved at varying rates for different range vehicles. Notably, nearly all 2b and 3 vehicles have a daily driving distance of less than 200 miles, putting electric 2b or 3 vehicles with this electric driving range in a suitable position for this technology transition. The total cost of ownership parity for electric vans and pickup trucks with a 200-mile range is already lower than a diesel version and by 2025, it will be cheaper than a gasoline version. Total cost of ownership parity for all battery-electric vans and pickup trucks with a higher range of up to 400 miles is achieved later, by 2035 for pickup trucks and 2032 for vans. Driven by significant reductions in fuel and maintenance costs, the total cost of ownership of all battery electric vehicles in the study reaches parity with conventional vehicles by 2035, based on a five-year duration for the first owner. However, plug-in hybrid vehicles are found to be economically unviable. Policies encouraging a wider variety of vehicle models to enter the market and ensuring the availability of a reliable charging network can help mitigate barriers to adoption and accelerate electric vehicle deployment.


On May 12, 2014, the ACLU-NH filed a
on behalf of itself, six other organizations, and four professors at the University of New Hampshire School of Law asking the New Hampshire Supreme Court to end this state’s cruel and unusual practice of sentencing juveniles to life in prison without the possibility of parole (“JLWOP”). “friend-of-the court” brief
In the U.S. each year, children as young as 13 are sentenced to spend the rest of their lives in prison without any opportunity for release. To date, approximately 2,570 children have been sentenced to JLWOP in the U.S. Despite the global consensus that children cannot be held to the same standards of responsibility as adults and recognition that children are entitled to special protection and treatment, the U.S. continues to allow children to be treated and punished as adults. The U.S. is the only country in the world that engages in this inhumane practice. Unfortunately, this practice exists in New Hampshire, and there are currently four New Hampshire defendants who have received JLWOP sentences for crimes they committed when they were children.
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. __, 132 S. Ct. 2455 (2012), struck down state regimes (like the one in N.H.) that mandates a JLWOP sentence for children convicted of first-degree murder, concluding that this practice violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment.” However, the U.S. Supreme Court in Miller stopped short of categorically finding all JLWOP sentences unconstitutional.
In our amicus brief, we argue two points. First, we contend that the Miller decision applies retroactively to the four New Hampshire children who were sentenced to JLWOP prior to the issuance of the Miller decision. Second, we argue that, as a categorical matter, JLWOP sentences violate Part I, Article 33 of the New Hampshire Constitution, which bans “cruel or unusual punishments.”
On August 29, 2014, the New Hampshire Supreme Court
that the Miller decision applies retroactively. held


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The Effects of the Medicaid Expansion on State Budgets: An Early Look in Select States Appendix C: Washington State Budget Impacts of the Medicaid Expansion
The figures included below were provided by Washington State budget officials and reflect estimates used when the state enacted its FY 2013-2015 state budget. These figures were derived from an alternative budget scenario that estimates the state costs in the absence of the Medicaid expansion maintained by state officials. States often do not maintain alternative budget scenarios of what would have happened had the state not implemented a specific policy over time; Washington state officials noted that they do not plan to continue this process going forward.
Washington State Budget Effects of Medicaid Expansion, SFYs 2014 and 2015 Budget Areas SFY 2014 SFY 2015 Increased Enrollment among those previously eligible but not enrolled* $22.8 million $59.9 million State Administrative Costs* $4.0 million $3.5 million State Administrative Savings* -$0.3 million -$1.6 million Savings within Medicaid from pre-ACA eligibility transitions: 1115 Waiver Transition -$34.0 million -$69.1 million Medically Needy Spend-Down Adults -$11.5 million -$35.0 million Breast and Cervical Cancer Program -$0.7 million -$3.6 million Family Planning -$0.5 million -$1.0 million Presumptive SSI*** -$38.1 million -$109.8 million Savings outside of Medicaid: Mental Health and Substance Abuse -$13.4 million -$51.2 million Inpatient Care for Prisoners -$0.7 million -$1.4 million Public Health Services -$2.6 million -$5.8 million Other health care programs for vulnerable populations** -$4.0 million -$9.7 million Increased Revenues: Premium tax revenue * $33.9 million Fiscal Benefit (Net Savings and New Revenues): $79.0 million $258.7 million Total State General Fund Spending in SFY 2013 $15.5 billion $15.5 billion Fiscal Benefit from Medicaid Expansion as a Share of Total State General Fund Spending in SFY 2013 0.5% 1.7% NOTES: *The cost and savings figures included here reflect the total impact of the ACA and are not isolated to the Medicaid expansion.**This included savings for programs related to long term care, developmental disability and labor and industries programs outside of Medicaid. ***Washington State also noted savings from the transition of adults who were previously eligible for their presumptive SSI category. This is an optional Medicaid eligibility category that provides Medicaid coverage while adults await a disability determination for SSI coverage. It is unclear how many states offer Medicaid coverage for such individuals. While expenses for those that qualified under this pre-ACA eligibility pathway were not reimbursed at the 100 percent federal match rate, the state did receive a higher matching rate for these individuals (equivalent to the early adopter matching rates.) SOURCE: Based on estimates from the state’s Forecast Model as well as from the 2013-2015 budget as originally enacted by the legislature in Washington State and discussions with Washington state budget officials. Figures may differ from more recent updates to budget analyses. The calculations of savings compared to SFY General Fund Spending are those of the authors based on savings figures provided by state officials compared to the state general fund spending across all budget categories for SFY 2013 as reported by the National Association of State Budget Officers in their State Expenditure Report: Examining Fiscal 2012-2014.


4 Practices to Avoid in Tax Aware Investing
Tax aware investing focuses on increasing your returns by reducing your tax liability as much as possible. In theory, this investment strategy has the potential to help you earn more money on your investments, but you need to be aware of some potential pitfalls. When getting started with tax-aware investing, you may want to avoid the following practices.
1. Don't Exclusively Let Taxes Drive Decisions With tax-aware investing, you always need to keep the tax implications of your investment decisions in the back of your mind, but you cannot let this single factor drive all your decisions. Just as you do with traditional investing, you also have to weigh the potential for gains when choosing between different investments or deciding if you want to sell an investment. You also need to keep in mind your tolerance for risk, your budget, your long-term investment goals, and multiple other factors while investing. 2. Don't Just Take Pre-Tax Gains Into Account Ultimately, the goal of investing is to realize a gain, but when you're looking at the potential gain of an investment, you should not just consider the amount earned. Instead, you should calculate the amount earned minus the potential tax liability. To give you an example of how these elements may affect your decision-making process, imagine that you buy some stocks. You earn a healthy return on the stocks so you want to sell them, but if you sell right away, you face short-term capital gains which diminish the value of your return. To ensure you optimize your returns, you crunch the numbers and decide to keep the investment for a few more months. This is possible because the stock is continuing to rise in value. Then, when you finally sell the stocks, you have long-term gains which are generally taxed at a lower rate. Note that this is just a basic example. In reality, there are multiple other factors to take into account. 3. Don't Rely on One-Size Fits All Investment Strategies When looking for a finance professional to help with your investments, you may want to choose someone with experience with tax-aware investing, but if possible, you should try to avoid financial professionals who use a one-size fits all approach to investing. Different people have different tax situations, and when seeking investment advice, you need guidance that is tailored to your unique situation. 4. Avoid Overly Complicated Portfolios The tax code is relatively complicated, and if you are trying to reduce your tax liability, you may want to avoid complicating the situation with an overly complicated portfolio. For instance, you may want to avoid overlapping mutual funds or exchange-traded fund (ETF) exposures, but these are just examples. Ultimately, you and your financial professional need to decide which investments are right based on your goals and tax situation. The opinions voiced in this material are for general information only and are not intended to provide specific advice or recommendations for any individual. To determine which investment(s) may be appropriate for you, consult your financial professional prior to investing. All performance referenced is historical and is no guarantee of future results. All indices are unmanaged and cannot be invested into directly. The information provided is not intended to be a substitute for specific individualized tax planning or legal advice. We suggest that you consult with a qualified tax or legal advisor. Investing involves risks including possible loss of principal. No investment strategy or risk management technique can guarantee return or eliminate risk in all market environments. Content Provider: WriterAccess LPL Tracking: 01-05039876


Are you ready to date?
Many women believe they're ready to date, but only because they've told themselves they are. They're sick of being single. They want someone to save and they secretly want someone to save them. They like the idea of being the perfect couple on social media. They're ready to share with the world how their prince charming has finally arrived and singleness has come to an end. All of that sounds nice, but if a woman's not actually ready, there's a problem. First things first, know what you want and why. This eliminates so much confusion down the road (like date #3 when these things come up).
You may find yourself thinking you're ready, but are you? Are you really ready to date? I find more and more that many aren't. They're desiring a relationship for all the wrong reasons. We can't afford to keep doing this. Though the divorce rate isn't as high as we make it, it's still too high. I believe if more people would find contentment while single, be complete on their own, chase purpose and happiness as much as they chase a mate, discover themselves, etc, the rapid rate that relationships and marriages are failing would stop. But for now, I want to give you a few ways that you can be sure that you're ready to date and meet someone new.
You possess happiness and joy
If you're not happy single, don't expect a man to make you happy. I know you think your frustration comes from not having a mate, but it's deeper. There's no way that a man can bring happiness to a person that already has peace and joy. If you're a positive person who's happy and content with life, then you're off to a good start.
You're already complete
Again, you can't expect a man to complete you. Many women are going down the list realizing they have the degree, career, house, car, and the only thing missing is the man. You can't expect a partner to bring completion to your life. He can be a bonus, but he's not a completion. This is unknowingly giving a man a job that he didn't apply for. His job will be to keep you happy and to perfectly fit into the puzzle you designed to make you feel complete. If you simply want to share your life with someone, the good and bad parts (also being open to
his good and bad parts), then kudos! You've discovered your purpose
Many are too busy chasing a mate and haven't even chased their passions and purpose. You're called to more than just be a wife. What's the last thing God spoke to you? What is your purpose? We all have one. Discover it and walk in it!
You love yourself
This is huge! There's an overwhelming number of women that only want a partner because they want someone to love them. This is signs of someone that doesn't have much love for self, and someone that hasn't truly experienced the fullness of God's love. If you constantly reflect the love you have for yourself in your thoughts, speech, deeds, and actions, then bravo. If you're not consumed by the thought of a man giving you love, awesome!
A relationship is a desire, not a need
It's one thing to want and desire a relationship. That's normal and healthy. Nothing is wrong with that. But if it's the only thing you think of, day in and day, that's not good. If your main focus and number one desire is a relationship, that's not good. If you're frustrated because all you really want is a relationship,
that's not good! You're not desperate
Desperate is an adjective described as a
feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with. When your desire for a relationship is a strong yearning, it's borderline, if not full-blown, desperation. This is not healthy. You'll end up engaged in a manic love affair with almost whoever you end up in a relationship with. Now, desperation doesn't always mean you're willing to settle. But if you settle, it's because you're desperate. Another sign you're ready to date is if you... Won't settle
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Some will settle for a piece of a man just to say they have someone. If this isn't you, you're in a good place. You're worth so much more than you should ever settle for. Know your worth!
No list, just standards
Once you've dropped that superficial list of things a potential man must check off, then you're really ready. This shows a woman that understands what relationships are actually about. She can be open-minded knowing that God can do something beautiful if she takes her hands off. Have standards. Never lower those. But standards are things that should be the obvious. He should be a Christian that's displaying good fruits. Since we're talking about dating and not just a fling or a friendship, he should have a job, showing he can provide as a man. Standards are never to be lowered, but preferences should be written in pencil.
No commitment issues
If you have a fear of commitment and relationships, don't date. I would assume as a Christian woman your goal with dating would be to eventually find a life partner. Well if you fear relationships and committing, then dating isn't what you should be doing right now. But if you're open to a relationship happening with the right person for you, go for it!
Communication isn't a problem for you
Can you communicate like an adult? Can you verbally express how you feel, clearly? Do you know how to state what you need, desire, and feel via text, phone calls and in person? Most relationships fail due to a lack of communication.
The list goes on. Do you possess self-control? Do you have empathy and good self-esteem? Are you confident and do you have self-respect? Are you ready to build memories and not walls? Are you excited about dating and not stressed or apprehensive? All of these things must be addressed. If you've checked the list off, then it looks like you're ready to date, girl! Put on some lip gloss and perfume and step on out! Go where he is. Make your presence known. If you're still unsure or just wanting some guidance, let me be the one to help you get it on. Click
here for dating coaching services that are self-guided and one-on-one. Your pick!


Based on capillary action (or diffusion) at either refrigerated (40oF) or frozen temperatures, Timestrip labels indicate a product’s remaining shelf life.
For Cooler Strips, foodservice workers can attach the 3¼4’’x11¼2’’-pressure-sensitive indicators to opened food packages upon refrigeration. Two-, three-, and five-day expiration refrigerated Cooler Strips will be available, according to Timestrip inventor and president Reuben Isbitsky. The largest pack size will be 100 Cooler Strips. Cooler Strips pricing has not been set.
Timestrip labels function more like a clock than previous time-temperature indicators. Rather than an enzymatic or other reaction, they are based on the capillary action—or diffusion—of an easy-to-read colored indicator over time.
The user depresses a small reservoir that releases the liquid within the Timestrip and basically starts the clock. Tailored to the application, frozen or refrigerated, the indicator color (typically red) moves across a printed scale. The Timestrip indicator is available in other colors, such as for medical applications.
Timestrips were introduced for sale directly to consumers in the United Kingdom in April 2004 at Morrison’s supermarkets and other UK retailers. A clamshell pack of 10 Timestrips sells for the equivalent of $1.85 in UK stores like Morrison’s. It is available there in two-month frozen or seven-day refrigerated versions with a two-week refrigerated version set to launch. —Rick Lingle


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24 HOUR CARE
Caring for seniors day and night
24-hour care is for seniors who need around-the-clock assistance from a caregiver. This service focuses on keeping seniors with medical issues living in the comfort of their home.
24 hour care is a superior alternative to a facility or institution based care. Seniors dread moving away from the comfort and familiarity of their own home. The emotional stress at the thought of losing their home and independence often leads to a decline in health and well-being.
When 24-hour care is needed, the caregiver will be awake and available every minute of their shift. For that reason, 24-hour care is broken into two 12-hour shifts. Thistlecreek's caregivers assist with tasks such as medication management, light housekeeping, bathing, dressing, meal preparation and assistance with other activities of daily living. This service can be provided by a caregiver, PSW or nurse, depending on the level of care needed.


Fans of 'Stranger Things' actor Gaten Matarazzo, 14, may not realize he actually has a lot in common with his on-screen character, Dustin Henderson. Like Henderson, Matarazzo lives with a rare genetic bone disorder called cleidocranial dysplasia.
This genetic disorder occurs in approximately one in a million people worldwide, and affects the development of a person's bones and teeth.
"It's a condition where you're born without your collarbones — I don't have any," Matarazzo revealed on "The Jonathan Ross Show", a British comedy chat show. "It affects your facial growth, your skull growth, it affects your teeth. That's why I don't have any — these are fake. I have teeth, but they're all baby teeth. I need a lot of surgery."
People living with this disorder may be three to six inches shorter than other members of their family, may have short fingers and forearms, flat feet and an abnormal curvature of the spine. They also may experience decreased bone density, which could lead to osteoporosis.
"I have a really mild case and a lot of people have it much worse than I do," Matarazzo explained.
The condition can be genetic, but it can also result from a new gene mutation.
"It's usually passed down through genes, it wasn't for me. It just happened," the actor said. "Now that it's in my genes, I have a 50 percent chance of passing it down in my genes and it could be much worse for them."
Matarazzo is glad that 'Stranger Things' creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, decided to write his condition into the show.
"I just want to raise awareness and let people know it's not something they should be afraid of showing," he said.
Aside from getting recognized on the street a lot and having two people tattoo his face on their arms, Matarazzo is having an impact on people living with the same disorder.
"The feedback has been great," he told PEOPLE magazine. "A lot of people were messaging me saying, 'You made me feel better about myself, that you can show that you have this condition on TV and embrace it.'"


Disputes routinely arise in construction projects, and they have major cost and schedule impacts. Therefore, they need to be either prevented effectively by proper contract and payment execution or resolved efficiently with enhanced resolution processes regarding cost, duration, effort, and transparency. However, current practices are inadequate for both effectiveness and efficiency since they mainly depend on centralized authority. This paper is designed in two folds; first, a generic blockchain-based online dispute resolution platform is tested with two litigation cases collected in 1999 and 2009 to show the need for a construction-focused system. Then, a new construction-specific framework, Decentralized Construction Enabling Transparent Resolution (DCENTR), is proposed to address the unique nature of construction projects. Ultimately, it is shown that dispute likelihood can be minimized through reliable contract and payment execution, and if occurred, construction disputes can be resolved with higher transparency and dramatic savings in effort, time, and cost.


New thinking about reliable and efficient data center power
Panel: What's in store for the next wave of AI chips? This episode is now available to stream on-demand using the form below.
Over recent years, there has been increasing competition in the AI chips market, with the number of companies developing GPUs increasing. Economies of scale that have traditionally favored CPUs can now be applied to GPUs, due to the rising demand for specialized applications such as AI. New AI chips are dramatically more effective for training than even state-of-the-art central processing units, and a recent study has estimated that by 2025, AI-related semiconductors are expected to account for almost 20% of all demand.
In this episode, expert speakers will consider how the data center industry can prepare for the wider-spread implementation of AI in their systems, and how the increasing number of AI chip vendors will drive innovation in the market. How specialized are chips going to become, and how can the industry move beyond conventional ideas of computing?
This session took place on September 22, 2022
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